The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 2e

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This isn't bedtime reading, unless you have insomnia, but with a bit of caffeine it makes for an incredibly engaging and pleasurable time.

However, as a particularly mobile student, I've lugged mine all over the place and as yet it has not been rendered damaged. A scholar of American literature and American literary criticism, Professor Cain is the author of The Crisis in Criticism: Theory, Literature, and Reform in English Studies (Johns Hopkins UP), F. O. Matthiessen and the Politics of Criticism (U of Wisconsin Press), and Literary Criticism, 1900-1950: The Cambridge History of American Literature (Cambridge UP) as well as the editor or co-editor of several college textbooks, including An Introduction to Literature (Longman), American Literature (Penguin), The Little, Brown Reader (Longman), and Literature for Composition (Longman).Since then, I've constantly referenced the writings contained inside as an undergrad of English, then as a graduate student of journalism (interested most in ideas of replication, what it means to be "original") and finally working on my thesis, in which this book has illuminated my understanding of hegemonic structures, the artifice (?

International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. While the introductions to the theorists and philosophers are concise and clear enough, the book becomes more and more anglo, and americo, centric as it approaches the end of the 20th century, in a truly disgusting way. All in all it's a great collection of highly important and influential critiques and theories that should be owned by anyone who is even remotely serious about literature.

I was challenged by Hegel, Heideigger, Barthes and Derrida in ways I've never even considered thinking before - and love their minds (even though I think Hegel is kind of kooky in his teleology.